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101 Schooling Exercises
Author: Jaki Bell; £11.87

Synopsis

Schooling your horse is fundamental to any equestrian pastime so getting it right is essential to the horse and rider's progression. With 101 Schooling Exercises you can plan the exercises you want to ride according to the level of you and your horse's ability. Whether to increase your horse's balance generate impulsion or for more advanced lateral exercises the easy-to-follow exercises include all the information you need to ride the movement correctly what may go wrong and advice on how to correct it. Each exercise is accompanied by an aerial illustration of the arena and additional diagrams showing the rider's position including where the emphasis should be on the rider's aids. Celebrities from the equestrian world also divulge their favourite training exercises including celebrity tips and advice.

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Keeping a Pony at Grass
Author: The Pony Club; £6.39

Synopsis

It is one of the Pony Club's longest-lasting and most popular publications. First published over 40 years ago it tackles its subject - keeping ponies in good order in safe and satisfactory surroundings - with the utmost simplicity and good sense. The text and illustrations have been updated to reflect modern methods of feed and horse management but the basic philosophy and wisdom remain intact.

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The Horses and Ponies Protection Association


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The Horses and Ponies Protection Association is one of the oldest and most respected Charities for equine welfare. HAPPA was founded in 1937 to help fight against the transportation of large horses to the continent for slaughter.

However complaints of horses ponies and donkeys being ill treated starved and abused were reported to the Association and since then we have investigated many thousands of complaints.

1997 saw this Association (HAPPA) celebrating its Sixtieth Anniversary. 1997 also saw the saving of 16 racehorses! One would think this could never happen. But it did! It took HAPPA staff from the Shores Hey Rescue Centre hours to save them from the squalid conditions they were living in.

These once proud now emaciated horsess were standing 3ft deep in their own manure they were crawling with lice and covered with open sores. HAPPA staff also found the dead body of another horse rotting among them under a pile of pallets!

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Learning to Read Your Horse 

by Claraetta Olney

Each horse needs either a firm; insistent approach such as a pressure/no pressure method or a gentle approach. A bossy horse would require the first method and a more timid horse would require the second method. Other horses may need a combination of methods.

This is why I say you need to learn how to read your horse observe its reactions to different methods. You must train your horse according to its temperament. A good way to start is just to watch your horse either in the pasture or in the stall where he is at home. Also in its home corral. Observe it with other horses present to see where it fits in with the herd.

The horse I rode when I was a teenager was one of those horses that needed a firm hand. He was the kind that thought he could rule the roost. I had to make him see I was head horse in order to get him to mind me. The horse I have now is a timid horse so I treat her with much more gentleness than I did the other horse.

Cindy( my present horse) was two and one half years old when I bought her. As a brown and white pinto filly she was a wild untamed mustang. She was very unsure of herself and other horses could chase her away from her feed. I treated her very gently in order to get her confidence in me.

The first few weeks I worked with Cindy I gave her two short lessons per day one in the morning and one at night. Later I worked with her once a day. She was kept in a round pen at first and was very hard to catch. Later I moved her to a pen with corners and developed the training method I call the "Y Stance"

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